Holy road trips. We enjoyed it but our rig was only 21' and it was time. LOL We even worked for the Forest Service and Missouri State Parks as campground host for a while. Loved it but it's good to settle back down and enjoy the twilight life now.
Wonderful. Work for 24-32 hours. Sometimes off for three or four days. It depends. Forest Service was the most work. No schedule but had to cut grass and clean the toilets. Very fun interacting with campers. FS paid $600 a month. State Parks were not. Good gig either way.
State parks were not what?
I tell folks all the time, "if you have not had people come by to look at your hummel collection in six months, sell everything and hit the road" That's what I did. Had it all, house, garage, shop with thousands in tools, hot rod. I was alone most of the time. People that came over wanted something. I hated it. Sold what I could and stored my tools and took off.
Have had several Tacos and loved them. Had a 4 cyl and got the 6 cyl thinking it would be good for trailer. They were a good balance for me between being small enough it was easy to drive and park around town and big enough to haul what I needed - the occasional few sheets of plywood or OSB, etc. The trailer is 3900 lbs empty and I am guessing about 5000 max loaded. It felt fine driving with the trailer even when passed by big trucks so it was ok - just ok. But am planning a trip out west with mountains. Gripes with Taco was the small fuel tank and transmission - big jump between gears 3 and 4. And would have needed to put a cooler on it as they dropped those about 2021. When weather gets much below freezing we don't do the RV. For a trip last winter we just drove the car to Mammoth Cave. A few weeks out the weather was predicted to be above freezing and had planned to RV but the forecast changed to colder. Not doing the RV for that trip was a great decision!
That's awesome!I built the camper out of aluminum. Had a blast doing it. Worked wonderful for a few years tent camping. The dealership kept calling me to sell it back to them so I did. They paid me $6k more than I paid for it two years later. LOL
Got any recommendations of things to see and places to camp there? We like the COE parks and want to check out some of the forest service camp grounds. We have a senior pass for 1/2 price camping at federal parks.
We also kayak so small lakes are good. We drive by the private RV parks where they are lined up right next to one another and say to each other we never want to do that - maybe if we can't find anything else and it's just an overnight on our way to somewhere but generally no.Got any recommendations of things to see and places to camp there? We like the COE parks and want to check out some of the forest service camp grounds. We have a senior pass for 1/2 price camping at federal parks.
Great! Thanks!This is Lake Wappapello and a State Park. Still a wonderful place to swim, kayak and rest.
EDIT: Corps of Engineers runs most of Wappapello. I'd check online.
Zim
My favorite lake is Council Bluff Lake. Absoutely beautiful and great swimming, canoe and kayak too.
